Francis Ford Coppola

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Francis Ford Coppola has had an erratic career, occasionally groundbreaking and sometimes just sort of forgettable. Regardless of his mediocre track record in recent years, the '70s was indisputably his decade -- his films won nearly four times as many Academy Awards in those years than in the rest of his career combined. The big three (The Godfather, The Godfather Part II and Apocalypse Now) all fall within the top third of the AFI's "100 Years… 100 Movies" list. Apocalypse Now went on to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes, as did Coppola's fourth '70s film, The Conversation.